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I am currently using WebPack to package a multi-page web app. Build times are relatively quick, and when developing I am using a feature that does an incremental rebuild when files are changed and that's quite fast at this point.

This being the case, I am not sure I'd really have a reason to migrate over to Vite on this project.

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if build times are quick and you’re not getting tooling issues there is no reason to switch.

the only reason i switched to Vite was that in my experience with Webpack build times were not quick and i got annoying JS bundling issues like syntax errors (!). That’s really the main difference I saw between the 2. But it was a while ago and maybe webpack has gotten better again, in which case they’re both very similar.

Don't switch if its pleasent to work with already. Vite is very nice, but it lets your browser load each module individually in dev mode (not like webpack, that creates chunks that combine lots of modules), so if you have a big project, you may end up with pages where your browser has to resolve and load 100 modules, which may be slower then webpack serving you 3 chunks.

I'm in that same situation in an MPA Fastify + Svelte project. Honestly, it takes more time for the app to reconnect to the DB than for Webpack to do an incremental rebuild.

I've been considering switching to Vite because it should make the SSR + hydration config much simpler and I would get HMR (hot module reloading) which will probably speed my iteration times if it works as expected.

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